The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-05
THE STORY OF TALBOT,

THE STORY OF TALBOT,
The Diam ond RobBer, since He Left
Memphis.
ESPECIAL TO THE APPRAL.l
KANSAS Cry, Mo-, February A.
Detective McGinn, OF the Piukerton
Agency, and Detective 0'Hsver, a
Memphis police officer, arrested at tn 3
Delmonico Hotel in this city, yester-
day afternoon, Charles Talbot, the
purloiner of Miss Fanny Davenport 3
diamonds from the Gayoeo Hotel
in Memphis The plumber, which
included twenty-five different
sets OF jswelp, valued. at
$S5 900, among which was
diamond necklace worth $4,000 was
found in cigar box in TalbotPs room.
The prisoner will be taken to Men,
phis this morning. The capture was
one OF the quickest on record, the
robbery having been commit ed only
four days before the arrest. Last
Monday night, after the opening
performances OF Fedora in Memphis,
Miss Davenport, accompanied by her
husband, Mr.. Z. IL Price, returned to
the Gayoso Hotel. The actress waited
at the elevator door while her hus-
band went to the office and deposited
his wife's jewel casket with the clerk,
taking receipt for 1t. lie
had also abou. 5000 on HIS
person, which 1t likewise was
his intention TO deposit in the
hotel safe, but in order not to detsin
his W fe he kept the money and re-
jlined Miss Davenport. Miss Dayen-
port haVirg no occasion. to uss the
diamonds, Mr.. Price thought nothing
more of them until l o'clock the
70 lowing afternoon, when he
was reqleStsd by one OF
the proprietors OF the hotel to examine
the casket a. L. feared it had been
tempered with. MIR. Pice looked at
it, but seeiog nothing wrong returned
it to the hotel proprietor, Afterward
it occurred to him that 1t would
do no harm to open the casket, aud,
doing &c, he found that it was empty,
with the exception of four pairs OF
bracelets, which the thief had left be:
hind. A fur her examination showed
that the nails used to fas!en the lock
had been drawn and the lock re-
moved. After having ritied the casket
the thief had replaced the nails and
so cleverly had the OBJ been dune that
the casket bore no outward evidence
of having been robbed. Had IL not
been for other thefts the robbery
would probably not have been discov-
cred until Miss Davenport made
her toilet for the evening per.
formance. When the clerk OF
the cigar stand opened his case
at z o'clock Tuesday morning
he found that it had been robbed OF
$40 in silver kept on hand for the pur-
pose of making change. He at once
reported the loss to Mr.. Won Leer, the
day clerk, who upon examination dis
covered that the cash drawer In the
Office had been robbed OF $50.
Henderson, the clerk of the cigar
stand, had 10 the meantime gone TO
the room of the night clerk, Charles
Tai bott, but found that the bed had
not been touched. Suspicion was
not directed against Talbot, however,
until q further investigation
showed that 1925 deposited with
Talbot by guests the night before was
also missing. The police at once be.
gan working on the case and
found that Talbot. after hay
ing bean relieved by the day
clerk had gone to- a resorI
on Gayoso street, Of which Jennie
Gill, with whom he was intimate, wa
en- Inmate. The girl taid that Talbot
had called at the house at II
o'clock and bidding her fare
well, had told her he had
been called home by tele
gram informing him of the
death of relative. Later in the day
it was learned that he had given the
girl $50, and as the left fol
home in Ches,er, H., at $50 O'Clock
ia the afternoon, the police surmiseC
that she had gone to ioir
her lover. Meanwhile the tnel
of the diamonds had been discovered
ard the hotel ofiijisls, besides
Offering a reward, telegraphed Plnker.
ton at Chicago. The Iollwing morninl
elective MCGnn was dispatched
to the scene of the rob
berry, arriving in Memphis a
8 o'clock Thursday morning
BY this time the Memphis police hat
got several clueo which afterward
proved useful. The day after the rob
berry they had tslegraphed all the con
ductors of outgoing trains, but re
ceived no reply till the mex
day, Wednesday, when the proprietor
OF the hotel received a Telegram
from the Superintendent OF the Gul
route to the effect that Tuesday eve
ming waiter in the hotel at Thsyer
Mo, had seen a man answering Tai
bolts description at supper. Witt
this clue Detective MCGinn, accom-
panied by Capt. OLIVER, Of the
Memphis detective force, went owe
TO West Memphis. From the sgen
Of the Gulf route at West Memphis
they learned that a man answering
Talbot description had crossed thu
river in a ekff Tuesday morning. Th'
agent described Tsloott infinitely. IL,
said that he had carried a small
package wrapped in a newspape
and that he cooked sleepy. What wa
more important as clue, the sgan
said that Talbot had bought cke
for Spripg 6sld. With this substantial
clue, Mcdinn, accompanied by Capt
O'Haver, Left for Springfield at lO:4
o'clock the same morning, q littI
more than an hour after his arrival il
Memphis, and iorty.eight hours be
hind the fugitive at SprinRi sid. Nc
CHM learned from the conductor OF
west bound Gulf train that Talbot
had gone through to Kansas Git,
!; Thursday night. The conducto
; said that while working hi
train out of Springfield he ha
come upon a man answering the d.
= scription Of Talbot asleep in th
: Cairo car. He had awakened tn
5 sleeper, who paid his fare to Kansi
: City. The detectives came on to thi
\ city, arriving at IL 80 o'cloc
: Yesterday morning, the tfai
3 being delayed several hours b
Q a freight wreck. Before leavin
y Memphis they had provided then
i selves with photograph OF Talbo
and comics of his handwriting, and in